Carved Hardwood Club from Early 19th Century Australia

An exceptional club, South East Australia (early nineteenth…
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An exceptional club, South East Australia (early nineteenth century), carved hardwood, 63 cm high. For a related example see: Robert Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania compiled from various sources for the Government of Victoria, Government Printer, Melbourne 1878, p.300, pl.57, illustrated., This superb example shows evidence of stone tooled incising. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Melbourne

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